Doll, puppet, or the like.



PATENTED SEN?. '8, 19os F. REINHARDT.

' DOLL, PUPPET; 0R THE LKR APPLICATION FILED APB. 20, 1903.

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UmTEDr STATES Patented September 8, 1901?. PATENT 'E OFFICE.

. l FRANZ REINHARDT, OF lVALTERSHAUSEN, GERMANY.

DOLL, PUPPET, R THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,628, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed April 20, 1903- Serial No. 153.517. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be `it known that I, ERANZ REINHARDT, manufacturer, a subject of the Duke of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha, residingat Waltershausen, in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German Empire, have invented certain new and use- Puppets, or the Like, of which the following is a specification'.

My invention relates to a doll, puppet, or the like which can have its legs adjusted in upright, oblique, or, sitting. position and Whose head is arranged to' be moved,say,from

The upper parts 1 of the legs of the dollare provided with suitably-secured prefer ably steel strips 2; provided at the top with astud or projection 8, made, preferably, by stamping. 0n this strip andbelow the projection 3 is mounted at 4 another bar 5, which extends above the top of the strip 2 and is provided with a sleeve 6. 'lhe sleeves 6 of these bars, one for each leg, are carried bya l transverse spindle 8, loosely passing through the body 7. The spindle 8 is provided at one end with a head 9 and at'the other with a nut l0, by` means of which it` can be clamped in position. `The thighs or upper parts of the legs of the doll are in this way interchangeably mounted on the body 7. The metal strips 2 terminate at the bottom in hooks 12 for receiving elastic cords for connecting the lower portions of the leg see Fig. 1) to the thigh portions, or the two parts may beloonnected in other suitable manner, or they might be in one rigid piece.

, The movement of the head 13,loosely mounted on the body 7, is effected from the thighs 1, pivoted on the spindle 8, in the following manner: The metal strips are provided at the top with L-pins 14, projecting inward and bent rupward. VThese pins 14 pass loosely through openings 15 in a horizontal lever on the end ofthe spindle 17, carrying the head 1.3, the spindle and lever thus forming aninverted-T lever. The spindle 17, passing vertically through the body 7, is supported at the bottom in a transverse bar 18, secured to the body 7 by means of cement or the likev and made of wood or other suitable material.

The top of the spindle 17yis connected to a cross-bar 19, secured in a suitable manner in,- side the dolls head. Instead of the cross-bar 18 a metal frame 11 (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1) could be used. When the thighs 1 or the legsof the doll are given a walking motion, the pins 14 move in opposite directions,where by the lever 16, and therefore the spindle 17 and the dolls head 13, are-alternately turned to a determined extent to the right and to theleft. While this motion is going ou, the metal strips 2, with their studs or projections 3, engage in corresponding holes or recesses l20 in the metal strips 5, thus locking the two strips together. If it be desired to bring the legs into some other position-such as, for instance, into an oblique position, Fig. 3, or

`Vinto a sitting position, Fig. 4-the projections 3 are disengaged (by slightly pressing them) from the holes 20, and the legs are'then given the desired position. The legs remain in. that position merely owing' to the frictional contact between the two contact-surfaces of the strips2 and 5 at pivot 4.

If it is desired to I ix the legs of the doll in a sittingposition or in any desired oblique position in the same way as they are secured in their vertical position, the metal strips or plates 5 are enlarged, as shown in Fig. 3,7the enlarged portions 21 at the lower end being provided with several holes or recesses 20 for receiving the projections 3. In this way the sitting and .oblique positions of the legs are quite simply secured.

1f it is desired to make any change Aor execute any repair to the doll or to the hingesor Walking mechanism, the nut 10 is unscrewed and the spindle 8 withdrawn, whereupon the legs and the hinges can be removed. .Y Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the saine is to be performed, I declare that what 'I claim is- 1. A mechanical doll, comprising narrow IOO 'Ass

strips secured to the legs and provided on one of their faces with integral projections of less named strips and provided with depressions of less'width than thefaces of the strips, said depressions adapted to receive the projections on the first-named strips for retaining the legs in a standing or sitting position, and means for connecting the last-named strips to the body of the doll.

2. A mechanical-doll, comprising narrow strips secured to the legs'and provided on one of their faces with integral projections of less width than the faces of the strips, narrow strips pivotally connected with the rstnamed strips and provided with depressions of less width than the faces of the strips, said depressions adapted to receive the projections on the first-named strips for retaining the legs in a standing or sitting position, and means for detachably connecting the last named strips to the Vbody of the doll.

3. In a mechanical doll, narrow strips secured to the legs and provided on one of their faces with integral studs, narrow strips pivotally connected with the first-named strips and further provided with depressions, said depressions registering with and adapted to receive the studson the first-named strips to permit of, adj usting`the legs to a standing or sitting position, means for detachably connecting the last-named strips to the body of the doll, and means connected with the head of the doll and with said mechanism for moving the head from left to right whenever the legs execute a walking movement.

4.'In a mechanical doll, narrow strips secured to the legs and provided on one of their faces with integral studs, narrow strips provided between their ends with sleeves and pivotally connected with the first-named strips andfurther provided withdepressions',said depressions registering with and adapted to receive the studs on the first-named strips to permit of adj usting thelegs to'astanding orsitting position, a spindle extending transversely of the body of the doll and adapted to receive the said sleeves for detachably connecting the last-named strips to the body of the doll, and means connected with the head of the doll and with said mechanism for moving the head from left toright whenever the legs execute 'a walking movement.

5. .In a mechanical doll, narrow upper strips secured to the thigh-pieces and provided at their lower ends with means :for attaching the lower parts of the legs thereto and further provided on one of their faces with integral studs, narrow strips pivotally connected near their lower ends to said rst-named strips to permit of adjusting the legs'to a standing or sitting position and provided with depres-- sions, said depressions registering with and adapted to receive the studs on the firstnamed strips for retaining the legs in their adjusted position, means for connecting the upper strips to the body of the doll, and

means connected with the head of the doll with oppositely disposed vertical strips,

means forattaching legs to the depending strips, and means extending through lthe body portion and the head of the doll and connected at its upper end to the head and at its lower end with the upwardly-extendin g strips for connecting the said upwardly-extending strips to the head of the doll for moving the head from left to right whenever the legs execute a walking movement. I

7. A mechanical doll, comprising a body having an uninterruptedly-open lower end, a spindle extending transversely of the body `portion near the lower end thereof and detachably secured thereto, sleeves mounted on said spindle and provided between their ends with oppositely disposed vertical strips, means for attaching legs to the depending strips, a stay member xedly and permanently secured in the body of the doll, a stay member iixedly and permanently secured in the head, a vertical spindle extending through said stay member in the body of the doll and roo having its upper end detachably secured to the stay member in the head, a horizontallyextending lever attached to the lower end of said vertically extending spindle and provided with openings near its ends, and crankpieces connected to the upper end ot' said npwardly-exteuding strips andhaving their other ends extending through the openings in said horizontally-extending lever and adapted' to turn the vertically-extending spindle in thestay member in the body of the doll and v thereby move the head from left to right whenever the legs execute a walking movement.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in .presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANZ REINHARDT.

Witnesses:

ERNST GUMPERT, MAX SoHUsTER.

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